Our Leaders

Honed in combat and crafted for business

Jeffrey H. Fischer

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Jeff Fischer, a 30 year retired Colonel, served in the U.S. Air Force with seven combat tours in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. He flew both the Air Force's EC-130H Compass Call and the EA-6B Prowler while on a joint exchange with the US Navy; seeing considerable combat time in both airframes.

Jeff’s staff assignments include tours at the Pentagon, in Requirements and Programming. Jeff’s last three assignments were in Europe where he was diplomatically assigned to U.S. Embassies in Austria and Kosovo. Jeff final assignment was a senior position at NATO Special Operations Headquarters in Mons, Belgium.

Post military, Jeff was elected to the Association of Old Crows Senior Board, the world’s largest EW organization. He’s also published several novels as well as international security articles in BBC, The Hill, Politico, Newsweek, The Kyiv Post, and others. While living in Europe, Jeff founded a European based non profit (Shelter2Service) for shelter animals and disabled US/NATO vets.

Michael Ryan

Chief Engagement Officer & Co-Founder

David Julazadeh is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General and F-16 instructor pilot with over three decades of service leading global operations, strategy, and capability development. His final active-duty role was as Deputy Chief of Staff for Capability Development at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, where he spearheaded initiatives in multi-domain operations, digital transformation, space, and innovation. Drawing on his senior-level experience in NATO strategy, U.S. defense policy, and industry engagement, Dave advises organizations on leadership, strategy, and capability modernization, helping them navigate complexity and accelerate solutions from concept to execution.

Mike Ryan retired from the Senior Executive Service with over 35 years of service to the United States, in and out of uniform. Applying his years of experience at this critical juncture to the His extensive career has perpetually revolved around Europe and NATO portfolio, serving seven years in Brussels first as the Military Advisor to the Secretary of Defense Representative, Europe at the US Mission to NATO and then as the Defense Advisor to the US ambassador to the European Union. Prior to assuming his position as Director, Mr. Ryan was a Deputy Director in the ECJ-5/8 at U.S. European Command where he was responsible for the command's security cooperation program overseeing 39 Offices of Defense Cooperation throughout Europe and the Caucasus.

David Julazadeh, LtGen (R) USAF

Chief Operations Officer & Co-Founder

Dani Zimra

Chief Technical Officer / Solutions Architech

& Co-Founder

Dani brings over 40 years of programs design, management and testing experience in Aerospace and C4ISR, working for the IAF, IMOD and the Aerospace community worldwide on multi-billion dollar programs. WIth a MSc degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering he was a key deleloper of the Israeli F-4's Multi-Mode Radar System Later, he took part in the Israeli Missile Defense program, UAS and space-borne systems, and intensive working in Inter-Operability and tactical networking of platforms.

Later, Dani's expertise focuesd on conceptual and design of mission aircraft, later known as CAEW, the Conformal Airborne Early Warning system based on the Gulfstream G-550. Now battle proven, operational configurations are serving around the globe.